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Ace Rope (limber Mullen
Rejoins Gymnastic Team
Star climber Phil Mullen makes his annual spring scho
lastic comeback this week—and not a meet too soon.
The defending Eastern and National Collegiate gymnast
squad faces a favored Army team this Saturday in the con
venient confines of the Academy's own gymnasium. As a
matter of fact, the Cadets have * * *
never lost a meet in their new
field house
Bob Foht, captain of the gym
nastic team, commented on Mul
len's return by calling him "a tre
mendous asset to the team and to
our chances of beating Army this
weekend. The outcome of the
meet is going to be decided by
only a few points, and with a
first in the rope climb we'd have
a better chance."
Coach Gene Wettstone was
also very elated over the re
turn of his number one climber
during the past two campaigns,
but issued a word of caution.
— Phil will still have to go great
to save Slate this Saturday."
Mullen, who has his weight
down to 166, appears in good
physical and mental shape. Al
though he had to limit his work
out time during the fall semester,
Mullen worked himself into shape
during the semester break when
be worked out every day.
As proof of his determination.
Mullen has been hitting the
pan at the top of the 2.13-foot
rope in 3.6 seconds—only one
tenth of a second off his best
time. A time that earned him
the Recreation Hall record and
the Eastern and National rope
climbing championships during
his sophomore year.
And the Eastern and National
titles he lost last year give him
an additional incentive to defeat
Army. For it was Cadet Paul
Dean that dethroned him in the
Easterns and topped him in the
Nationals last year. Dean also beat
Mullen in the dual meet last year
with a 3.4 clocking when Mullen
bit the pan in 3.5. But the Lions
still won the meet 19 1 / 2 -1514.
But Dean is gone, and Mullen
a ill climb Saturday. His chief
opponent will be veteran Bob
Degan who ha:. been averaging
3.9 seconds in Army's four .meets
to date.
When asked about his
West Virginia
Still Top Team
Despite Ist Loss
By The Associated Press
After due consideration of West
Virginia's first defeat of the bas
ketball season, the sports writers
and broadcasters who follow the
same closely today voted the
Mountaineers the No. 1 College
team in the nation for the seventh
straight week.
The race for the top spot be
came wide open when the last
two unbeaten major teams. West
Virginia and St. John's of Brook
lyn, finally met defeat last week.
But the observers who had liked
Vest Virginia during its 14 game
winning streak didn't back down
too far after the Mountaineers
lost to Duke then bounced back
to whip Florida State.
Only one change in the top 10
was made in this week's voting
as Kansas, Cincinnati, Kansas
State, San Francisco, Oklahoma
State, North Carolina, Maryland,
North Carolina State and Temple
rounded out the upper bracket.
The second 10:
Bradley, Kentucky. Duke. Day
ton, Michigan State, Seattle. Mis
sissippi State, Arkansas, Georgia
Tech and Dartmouth.
Martinez Draws
A Bye in Tourney
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 1.4) A
draw out of a hat today gave
h•And'onw Vince Martinez of Pat
erson, N.J.. a free ride into the
final round of the Welterweight
Boxing Eliminations Tournament.
Be will meet the winner of a Vir
gil Akins-Isaac Logan 12-round
er for the title vacated by Carmen
Basilio.
If the plans of the World Cham
pionship Boxing Committee, head
ed by Julius Helfand. go through
en schedule, a new 147-pound
champion could be crowned w•ith
in three xikantlas.
By MATT MATTHEWS
chances. Mullen eluded the
probe with. "I should lose three
or four pounds when the tension
gets greater a couple of days
before the meet. You know
what it means to go up with
a couple less pounds dragging."
Wettstone is expected to enter
Vince Neuhauser and either Don
.Littlewood or Jack Hidinger as
'the second and third Lion corn
petitors in the climb. Neuhauser
Chas the best supporting record
to date with first against Temple
and West Virginia. His clockings
were 4.6 and 4.5 respectively.
Hidinger and Littlewood are in
the 4.7 to 4.9 area. but Littlewood
.hit a 4.45 in practice last night.
Welcome back! All set for
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Phil Mullen
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Last
Time!
MEN'S SHOP
Will Duel Sime, Murchison . . .
Nittanies Discover Sprint Star
By MIKE MAXWELL
Penn State has a new sprint
sensation in freshman track
star Bob Brown. This can be
verified by Bro.,vnis brilliant
showing two weeks ago on the
indoor track floorboards in
Philadelphia at the annual
Inquirer Games.
Brown scored a surprising up
set, even over the experts, when
he came through with a burst of
speed in the last 35 yards to fin
ish a close second in the 50-yard
dath to speedy veteran Ira Mur
chison in a photo finish. Both
were clocked at 5.3.
Brown's performance wsa so
astounding that the sports
pages in Philadelphia and Har
risburg heralded him as an
other Jesse Owens and a future
member of the United States'
Olympic Team—and they told it
in headlines.
The tall, muscular freshman,
majoring in Physical Education,
hails from Northeast Public High
School in Philadelphia where he
began his swift rise to fame.
In his junior year ' in high
school, Brown won the 100-yard
dash and finished a close second
in the 220 in the High School
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City Championship meet.
The next year Brown won
The Public League Champion
ship in the 100-yard dash. turn
ing in a very fast lime of :10.1.
Then in the City Championship
meet, Brown won the 100
again in :10.1 and copped the
220 in :22.7.
After sitting out a year Brown
began to compete in a few meets
last summer.
His most impressive, and most
startling performance, occurred
in the middle of the summer
when he turned in a remarkable
time of :09.5 in his specialty, the
100. The time, ironically enough,
wasn't fast enough to win_ Brown
was barely beaten at the tape
by Ed Waters, a recent Morgan
State graduate.
From this we shouldn't be
startled to learn that Brown is
aiming for the freshman 100-
yard record of 9.7 held by both
Barney Ewell and Art Pollard.
And the varsity record isn't
very much further away—only
9.6,
The real test will come this
weekend when Brown travels to
the Millrose games in New York
where, in addition to Murchison,
he will compete in the 60-yard
dash against such sprint stars as
world record holder Dave Sime,
from Duke, and Mel Barnwell, a
sophomore flash from Pitt.
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